Rokinon TSL24M-N 24mm f/3.5 Tilt Shift Lens for Nikon

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Product Feature

• 24mm focal length; maximum aperture f/3.5
• angle of view: 83.5 degrees on full frame and 59.9 degrees on APS-C
• Construction: 16 elements in 11 groups with 2 aspherical lenses
• Maximum tilt amount of �8.5 �, Maximum shift amount of ±12mm; 90° right and left mount rotation with click stops for each 30� step; Manual focus
• Constructed for full frame cameras but can also work on APS-C; Takes 82mm Filter Size

Product Description

Rokinon’s long awaited 24mm f3.5 Tilt/Shift lens is finally here! Now you can easily photograph your favorite architectural landmarks, or really tall friends, with precision and without the vertical perspective you would get with normal lenses. This manual focus lens features a 24mm fixed focal length with an aperture range of f/3.5-22. This lens is suitable primarily for full-frame cameras but will work just as well with an APS-C crop sensor. The lens is expertly constructed using 16 optical elements in 11 groups with 2 aspherical lenses. Thanks to Rokinon, it is now affordable to all users. Order yours up today! Available in Canon, Nikon and Sony Alpha mounts.

Rokinon TSL24M-N 24mm f/3.5 Tilt Shift Lens for Nikon Review

There are two parts to this review:
1) clarifications on the specs which buyers should be aware of
2) specific sharpness problems in some cases that made me return this lens.

1) Spec updates:

Buyers should know that there are no electronics in this lens at all. It is not just a manual focus lens. There are big differences between the Canon TS-E lenses that also require manual focus and this one:
- this lens does not have focus confirmation either
- this lens has no electronic aperture control. In the Canons you use the viewfinder with aperture always full open and it snaps close to where you want when you take the shot. This lens doesn't do that. There also seems to be focus creep when changing aperture, so you can't focus full open and then step down to take the shot
- this lens doesn't tell the camera what focal length and aperture were in effect when taking a shot (for the EXIF info)

Quite frankly I am baffled at the lack of AF confirm. I think if you buy the Nikon version and a $15 EOS adapter with AF confirm you would get that. What the heck?

Other spec clarifications:
- the focal length varies with focus, it is longer at infinity. I don't know yet what the true values are
- it's all plastic but seems solid enough to me. Shifting and tilting work well

2) Possible sharpness concerns:

Take this with a grain of salt since it is only one lens I tested and I didn't give it a long evaluation myself. It seems that there is a very serious sharpness problem at or close to infinity focus with apertures bigger than f/11. I have not been able to take any shot at bigger apertures that was "landscapish" (that means not a closeby object) that was sharp. Zero. Unfortunately initial reports on the net and more formal tests seem to confirm this. I have taken some nice test shots of close-up objects such as flowers, which are sharp at f/3.5.

I decided to return the lens as "defective". I hope that if this is a general problem with this lens Rokinon can fix it after the first production batches.

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